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I've always thought similarly about Uber. All they're doing is providing the platform and don't have to supply cars, drivers, etc. They basically take a cut on all rides worldwide and just have to supply a map solution. It seems to me they should be pretty damn profitable.

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I think it is opposite of Uber. Content is free. There is hordes of people willing to do it for very little.

But actually doing the hard lifting of moving lot of bytes for users is the expensive thing. Ordering taxi and then updating location every few seconds is pretty light load. And there is not too many users doing it at one time.

What hard lifting? Flat rate egress.

Twitch also transcodes live, etc. There's much more to streaming infra than just egress costs.

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